Starter issues in Direct3D

[jjerry]

Hi good people

First of all, how do you make your application run in fullscreen mode?
I set the PresentParameters object, I check with the Manager object
to make a BackBuffer with the correct width, height and format, I create
the device and try clearing it and the application crashesh. Does anyone
have (undoubtedly, but is also willing to post) a working piece of code?

2nd question: What is the true nature of the znearPlane and zfarPlane parameters in Matrix.PerspectiveFovLH(..)? Ok, they are clipping planes, but do they apply in camera (view) space? I suppose so, but application behavior suggests otherwise. For example, my camera is at (0, 0, -1000), looking at (0,0,0). I'm drawing only 3 axes, so there isn't a single point with Z < 0. However, for some reason it works with (znear, zfar) = (0, 100) and for some reason doesn't if I put znear > 0

Please help, experienced ones

 

[Nate Bross]

If you could post the code that is failing that would be helpful.

 

[jjerry]

That won't be necessary at least about the clipping planes issue, but thanks for wanting to help. About the fullscreen problem, I'll get to that and post the faulty piece of code.